19th May

Its days like today that I regret being an on call engineer. Im sat here waiting for a call from the other end of the world to fix a problem that is quite clearly been created to never be fixed. Im pretty sure that I will never get any sleep tonight. Kyp is picking me up in the morning. I may as well stay awake until then and dribble on his fine leather seats on the way to our week long course.

The course has been good so far. The best bit is when we were introducing ourselves to the other course attendees. The guy say opposite looked like an eastern european brick so it was no surprise when he said he was Slovenia. A little later, the trainer was talking to him and called him Igor! I burst out laughing and everyone looked at me. He reproached me with the following:

Igor: Vat ees iit and you laughings?
Me: I... er... nothing. It's just that its funny!
Igor: Vat is?
Me: Well you! You look like Draculas servant and your name is Igor!
Igor: I'm not undertandinks!
Me: Oh never mind. I'm sorry. Oh look! A virgin with a fat neck!

The above dialogue is not verbatim. Some words probably were not said. Regardless, I pictured Igor running count Draculas bath and testing the temperature with his fat elbows. I returned to vlan configurations and some advanced spanning tree.

After the course, Kyp and I had to do some work in west London. That passed without any excitement although I did force open the main locked gate to the site much to the anger of the security dude there. I told him that my strength could not be contained by mere steel. He threatened to call the police so we drove off.

No sooner did i step through the doorway of my house did my mobile ring and here I am sat. Still working waiting for this call. I think im making progress and maybe the customer will let me go to sleep. If I do sleep, I shall dream of fucking hammer headed sharks.